Funlove, threat or menace?
Just how serious is the Funlove virus? From what I've read, it has no payload, so it's relatively harmless, but we have a BIG network here (At least 250 systems on just this LAN, and easily thousands across the entire corporate WAN). Anti-virus protection is rather spotty, with quite a few machines having outdated versions or no A/V at all. Many people have open file shares, and often entire drives shared, with no passwords.
I've got a single open file share, and Norton Anti-Virus started grabbing and cleaning the virus as it was attempting to infect my system. I did a quick 'netstat', and found it was coming from three different file servers in two offices.
I talked to our local IS network guy, and he's all calm and everything about it, no big deal, it'll clear up on its own. I, on the otherhand, think it could become a big deal, because of the spotty A/V coverage, and the fact that other LAN's connected to the WAN are becoming infected. I think that more drastic action should be taken.
What do y'all think?
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Captain Troy D. Pack Rat
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